Livestock value chain/Gambia – Agro-vet committed to animal welfare and health to boost production Commercial livestock farmers and small livestock farmers need to ensure proper and timely treatment against livestock diseases to enhance quality a... 17/03/2015
Meat value chain/Botswana - Maun abattoir has exceeded its target of slaughtering 16,000 cattle per year Despite the “foot and mouth disease” in Botswana (Ngamiland District), the Maun abattoir’s plant manager, Mr Mothobi Mothobi apprised that the plan... 10/03/2015
Meat value chain/Namibia - More cattle have tested positive of foot and mouth disease, the first cases in the country for six years. According to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), there are seven positive cases of Foot and Mouth disease in the far North East of the... 10/03/2015
Informal markets ‘require support to aid food safety’ Informal markets provide 85-95 per cent of animal food products eaten in Africa. 10/03/2015
Responding to SPS trade challenges in the livestock sector in Southern Africa: National and regional dimensions The South African government’s introduction of stricter sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) controls on imports of livestock in May 2014 highlighted t... 16/11/2014
Livestock trade between Namibia and South Africa reopened by Court ruling On 26 August 2014 the South African Feedlot Association (Safa) announced that the new livestock regulations introduced by the South African authori... 11/10/2014
New South African livestock import regulation highlights challenges in establishing regionwide SPS import regimes On 1 May 2014 the South African authorities imposed stringent veterinary requirements for the importation of live animals from Namibia. The new reg... 20/08/2014
The WTO and animal welfare-related trade restrictions Animal welfare concerns were raised at the International Meat Secretariat Veal Committee meeting in mid June 2014 over the possible implication for... 17/08/2014
Hong Kong seen as good fit for Namibian beef product exports The suspension of live animal exports to South Africa in May 2014 has thrown into sharp focus the long-standing concerns in Namibian government cir... 10/08/2014
Trade challenges in the West African beef sector According to analysis from the University of Wageningen, West African governments are looking to support private sector investment as a means of pr... 10/08/2014